Short-haul city travel is truly environmentally sustainable

Tourism Management

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 505-512

  Dolnicar, Sara ^a   Laesser, Christian ^b   Matus, Katrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ecological footprint; Environmentally friendly; Sustainability; Tourism transport

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ECOTOURISM; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; SUSTAINABILITY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 77249091686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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